The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-06-23
PERSONS AND THINGS

dreth part of cent, this being the
smallest fraction in which dealings
options are permitted on the New
York Coffee Exchange.
Bancroft, the historian. is now
busy at work on history of the
Polk Administration, during which
he was secretary of the navy. He
has not reached that point in bis his
tory of the United States, but for
personal reasons, and particularly
because he thinks Polk has not had
Justice done him by other historians,
he will pay particular attention to
that era.
Among the visitors at the Vassar
College commencement was grad
uate who has made $4,000 in q
unique manner. Upon her gradus-
tim she was promised by her father
a dollar for every cent she earned
by working at anything. She &C.
cepted the offer, and, entering a
factory, where she obtained six dol.
lars a week, kept on working until
her father had paid her $4,000 and
broke the contract because his little
joke was becoming too costly.
In answer to an inquiry concern.
ing the business of the Supreme
Court, Justice Field said the other
day: 'The condition of the calen-
dar could not be worse. Eight hum
dred cases are yet unreached, mean.
ing more than two years continued
business. There are only two ways Of
getting rid Of this immense overstock.
One is to make three Justices quo
rum in all cases not involving con.
stitutional or international questions.
The other is to give US eighteen in
stead Of nine circuits"
An intimate friend of the tattooed
man from Maine in recent conver.
sation said: "Mr. Blaine will not
return until after the National Re.
publican Convention. His absence
will relieve him from the embarass-
ment of saying whether be would &C.
cept the nomination for President
again. Of course, if in his absence
his friends should insist upon. re.
nominating him he could hardly do
less than accept the responsibility.
Mr.. Blaine, I understand, will make
q circuit Of the globe. When. be
lands in San Francisco next summer
he will probably receive the news
that he has been renominated for
President by the Republican party"
The heroism Of the man whose
only regret on the scafold was that
he had but one life to lose for his
country is at last to be fttingly com.
memorated in New York city, where
that one life was taken in 1876 by
the British Gen. Howe. Capt. Nathan
Hale volunteered for the perilous
service of sscertaining the strength
and position of the enemy after the re.
treat from Long Island, and was
captured and executed IS spy. The
Society of Sons of the Revolution
have determined to erect statue to
his memory, which Will probably have
q conspicuous and appropriate posi-.
ton in the City Hall Park not far
from the scene of his execution and
near the spot where American pris.
oners were kept during the Revolu-
tionary war.
Will the Anti. poverty league which
is conducted by Henry George
and DR.. McGlynn, pay the Chicago
strikers the million dollars they have
lost by stopping work?
Senator Sherman is still playing q
pleasing accompaniment TO his fay-
orite song, When the cruel war is
over" He has not yet heard that
Vicksburg has fallen.
In Comparison with the horde of
offce-seekers who infest Washington
President Cleveland regarded the
swarms of black flies and mosquitoes
at Saranac as mere tri6e Lot to be
mentioned.
A revival preacher addressed a
Tennessee audience IS lot Of 1.-TWO
legged hogs. The next week he
appealed to his hearers by calling
them s'pusillanimous skunks." Re-
ligion seems to have queer effect
on some men.
The Knights of Labor may be
right or they may be wrong in the
choice of methods, but that some
thing should be done, and must be
done, to take few of our big monop-
olies by the throat and teach them
decent manners is as plain as the
nose on a mans face.